From ideas to action

Achievements & projects

A record of work

Completed projects

  • Integrated self-sustaining village development, including the adoption of Umla village from 1994 to 1999.
  • Twelve watershed development projects and demonstrations of ecological farming in 46 villages from 1996 to 2005.
  • Fabrication of manual dehairing machines and improved water flour mills.
  • Solar vegetable and fruit dryers, passive solar greenhouses, homes, and poultry houses.
  • Health programme for control of silicosis, including distribution and sale of 6,000 filtered masks.
  • Handicraft and handloom development, including vegetable dyeing and Ladakhi patterns for Pashmina shawls.
  • Appropriate technology development and application.

Continuing the work

Programmes under implementation

  • Integrated self-sustaining village and watershed development
  • Ecological agriculture
  • Health programme
  • Handicraft and handloom development
  • Seminars, conferences, and training
  • Appropriate technology
  • Solar energy: improved greenhouses, passive solar houses, and solar poultry houses
  • Pashmina development
  • Fruit and vegetable preservation
  • Marketing of ecological products
  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Climate change initiatives
  • Consultancy for greenhouses, passive solar houses, vegetable dyeing, and Pashmina processing
  • Poly sheet supply for green and passive solar houses
  • Vegetable and fruit processing